squawroot

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   tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally

   Synonymsblue cohoshblueberry rootpapooserootpapoose rootsquaw rootCaulophyllum thalictrioidesCaulophyllum thalictroides

   Broadershrub

   Part ofCaulophyllum

Other forms of squawroot

plural

squawroots·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about squawroot

What does squawroot mean?

squawroot means "tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally".

How many syllables are in squawroot?

squawroot has 3 syllables: squa-wro-ot. The stress falls on "squa".

What is another word for squawroot?

Close synonyms include blue cohosh, blueberry root, papooseroot, papoose root, squaw root. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is squawroot a common word?

squawroot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.